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It depends very much on how the turboshaft project matures. If it matures and deployed well, having a turboprop based on it will be natural next step.

Yes if there were any interim questions that were off topic (and now deleted etc)....if members could ask me in Indian section (say coffee thread etc or cay bachesi etc) that would be best. Let us return to TF-X and related topics only here.

Are you a current service member in British Armed forces?

Mk2 will basically be somewhat larger and have "medium" class category as compared to "light".

Yeah look up the guy jackdaws just posted, its the same author (Trautmann) that the blog uses as underlying reference mostly.

It will be good start + noticeable improvement. But really India should be growing at double digit real rate constantly for a block of 5 - 10 years now....in fact last decade itself. We should have been at least 5 trillion nominal GDP by now....so high growth now of 8% - 9% is expected and...

It hit its lowest point around boxing day (Dec 26th) at 10.91. Next day went to 11.6 Now it is at 12.65 (dec 29)...year is not even ended. Folks were talking about keeping it in range for 11.5 - 12.5 for a couple months. That range has been traversed in couple days.... Some other was...

tejas mk 2 CDR confirmed: https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/lca-tejas-mark-2-achieves-cdr/ @Indos

It is simply better to find more Gadkaris, develop them and make them bipartisan across all political spectrum in every state possible. They are out there, plenty of them...but you need to take the time to find them and position them. I dont like DMK in TN at all....I dont like Stalin or his...

Its not special because its long overdue....compounded by what covid cost us big time. Too much latent heat with little place to go that will finally dissipate better and be channeled to sustain more. The march in market cap to 4 trillion USD (i.e exceeding GDP) is a big indicator of the...

Simple, our goal must be to keep growing our gross domestic savings. It is at 1 trillion USD level right now. It needs to get to 2 trillion USD and then 3 trillion USD ASAP. Every other economic number flows from this (be it investment or GDP) In 2004 our savings were about 200 billion USD...

part I and II are also worth reading....part III given here focuses lot more on India: https://acoup.blog/2019/08/09/collections-war-elephants-part-iii-elephant-memories/ This might be handy to watch too for more details on elephant use:

Yeah I had a read of it. (y) GMR is very reputable company, they have done quite well in Delhi airport operations for example. They are branching out to south east asia and I think Indonesia and philippines are especially ripe to expand and improve airports as they are archipelago nations...

Propulsion (of any nature) is tough nut to crack, and those that have cracked it the most are in position to know it best. This difficulty scales the most in gas turbines given their extremely high power/weight and RnD intensity. They (relative tech fountainheads) will thus leverage it against...

Bro, I honestly find projection past 10 year time frame quite speculative at best. That is because a lot of things change and a lot of things disrupt (compared to what you base on w.r.t last 20 years etc) How you grew in the last 10 years and the 10 years before that is always quite different...

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2021/12/indias-nuclear-arsenal-takes-a-big-step-forward/ India’s Nuclear Arsenal Takes A Big Step Forward By Matt Korda and Hans Kristensen • December 23, 2021 On 18 December 2021, India tested its new Agni-P medium-range ballistic missile from its Integrated...

Interesting....

Pics I never seen before...

Well from inside out they are fairly robust at this point. Their capital account + savings is looking ok (relative to 275 million people developing country): Forex of 150 billion or so...not too shabby Their central bank bonds are rated investment grade. FDI looks to reach 10 billion or more...

I was away for a few days (and wont be back fully till after new years)....and seems some replies etc got deleted to put the thread back on track. I have long agreed with these sentiments....both countries on road of progress of their larger context. TF-X and AMCA are respectively programs...